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title: As soon as the King had landed his men, the lions all rose up togeth… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the King had landed his men, the lions all rose up together and tried to devour them. Who acts: King, lions. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 61

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As soon as the King had landed his men, the lions all rose up together and tried to devour them.

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**Who acts:** King, lions · **What happens:** land, rise up, try, devour · **To what, where:** men

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, lions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:12:61
# text = As soon as the King had landed his men, the lions all rose up together and tried to devour them.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past · perfect | the King | king's men |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **rise up** | past | the lions |  |  |  |  | all, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **try** | past | the lions *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **devour** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the lions *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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